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Overview

Package internal defines simple and abstract APIs to group Elements and Scalars.

Package internal defines simple and abstract APIs to group Elements and Scalars.

Package internal defines simple and abstract APIs to group Elements and Scalars.

Index

• Variables
• func RandomBytes(length int) []byte
• type Element
• type Group
• type Scalar

Variables

var (
	// ErrParamNilScalar indicates a forbidden nil or empty scalar.
	ErrParamNilScalar = errors.New("nil or empty scalar")

	// ErrParamScalarLength indicates an invalid scalar length.
	ErrParamScalarLength = errors.New("invalid scalar length")

	// ErrParamNilPoint indicated a forbidden nil or empty point.
	ErrParamNilPoint = errors.New("nil or empty point")

	// ErrCastElement indicates a failed attempt to cast to a point.
	ErrCastElement = errors.New("could not cast to same group element (wrong group ?)")

	// ErrCastScalar indicates a failed attempt to cast to a scalar.
	ErrCastScalar = errors.New("could not cast to same group scalar (wrong group ?)")

	// ErrWrongField indicates an incompatible field has been encountered.
	ErrWrongField = errors.New("incompatible fields")

	// ErrIdentity indicates that the identity point (or point at infinity) has been encountered.
	ErrIdentity = errors.New("infinity/identity point")
)

Functions

func RandomBytes

func RandomBytes(length int) []byte

RandomBytes returns random bytes of length len (wrapper for crypto/rand).

Types

type Element

type Element interface {
	// Base sets the element to the group's base point a.k.a. canonical generator.
	Base() Element

	// Identity sets the element to the point at infinity of the Group's underlying curve.
	Identity() Element

	// Add sets the receiver to the sum of the input and the receiver, and returns the receiver.
	Add(Element) Element

	// Double sets the receiver to its double, and returns it.
	Double() Element

	// Negate sets the receiver to its negation, and returns it.
	Negate() Element

	// Subtract subtracts the input from the receiver, and returns the receiver.
	Subtract(Element) Element

	// Multiply sets the receiver to the scalar multiplication of the receiver with the given Scalar, and returns it.
	Multiply(Scalar) Element

	// Equal returns 1 if the elements are equivalent, and 0 otherwise.
	Equal(Element) int

	// IsIdentity returns whether the Element is the point at infinity of the Group's underlying curve.
	IsIdentity() bool

	// Set sets the receiver to the argument, and returns the receiver.
	Set(Element) Element

	// Copy returns a copy of the receiver.
	Copy() Element

	// Encode returns the compressed byte encoding of the element.
	Encode() []byte

	// Decode sets the receiver to a decoding of the input data, and returns an error on failure.
	Decode(data []byte) error

	// BinaryMarshaler implementation.
	encoding.BinaryMarshaler

	// BinaryUnmarshaler implementation.
	encoding.BinaryUnmarshaler

	// TextMarshaler implementation.
	encoding.TextMarshaler

	// TextUnmarshaler implementation.
	encoding.TextUnmarshaler
}

Element interface abstracts common operations on an Element in a prime-order Group.

type Group

type Group interface {
	// NewScalar returns a new, empty, scalar.
	NewScalar() Scalar

	// NewElement returns the identity element (point at infinity).
	NewElement() Element

	// Base returns the group's base point a.k.a. canonical generator.
	Base() Element

	// HashToScalar returns a safe mapping of the arbitrary input to a Scalar.
	// The DST must not be empty or nil, and is recommended to be longer than 16 bytes.
	HashToScalar(input, dst []byte) Scalar

	// HashToGroup returns a safe mapping of the arbitrary input to an Element in the Group.
	// The DST must not be empty or nil, and is recommended to be longer than 16 bytes.
	HashToGroup(input, dst []byte) Element

	// EncodeToGroup returns a non-uniform mapping of the arbitrary input to an Element in the Group.
	// The DST must not be empty or nil, and is recommended to be longer than 16 bytes.
	EncodeToGroup(input, dst []byte) Element

	// Ciphersuite returns the hash-to-curve ciphersuite identifier.
	Ciphersuite() string

	// ScalarLength returns the byte size of an encoded scalar.
	ScalarLength() uint

	// ElementLength returns the byte size of an encoded element.
	ElementLength() uint
}

Group abstracts operations in a prime-order group.

type Scalar

type Scalar interface {
	// Zero sets the scalar to 0, and returns it.
	Zero() Scalar

	// One sets the scalar to 1, and returns it.
	One() Scalar

	// Random sets the current scalar to a new random scalar and returns it.
	// The random source is crypto/rand, and this functions is guaranteed to return a non-zero scalar.
	Random() Scalar

	// Add sets the receiver to the sum of the input and the receiver, and returns the receiver.
	Add(Scalar) Scalar

	// Subtract subtracts the input from the receiver, and returns the receiver.
	Subtract(Scalar) Scalar

	// Multiply multiplies the receiver with the input, and returns the receiver.
	Multiply(Scalar) Scalar

	// Invert sets the receiver to the scalar's modular inverse ( 1 / scalar ), and returns it.
	Invert() Scalar

	// Equal returns 1 if the scalars are equal, and 0 otherwise.
	Equal(Scalar) int

	// IsZero returns whether the scalar is 0.
	IsZero() bool

	// Set sets the receiver to the value of the argument scalar, and returns the receiver.
	Set(Scalar) Scalar

	// Copy returns a copy of the receiver.
	Copy() Scalar

	// Encode returns the compressed byte encoding of the scalar.
	Encode() []byte

	// Decode sets the receiver to a decoding of the input data, and returns an error on failure.
	Decode(in []byte) error

	// BinaryMarshaler returns a byte representation of the element.
	encoding.BinaryMarshaler

	// BinaryUnmarshaler recovers an element from a byte representation
	// produced either by encoding.BinaryMarshaler or MarshalBinaryCompress.
	encoding.BinaryUnmarshaler

	// TextMarshaler returns a base64 standard string encoding of the element.
	encoding.TextMarshaler

	// TextUnmarshaler sets the base64 standard string encoding of the element.
	encoding.TextUnmarshaler
}

Scalar interface abstracts common operations on scalars in a prime-order Group.